Insider’s Guide to Silicon Valley’s InvestorsIn Silicon Valley, people say that the investor-entrepreneur relationship is like a marriage, only more important. Like most jokes, there’s a fair amount of truth behind it: Matchmaking mistakes between investors and entrepreneurs can have long-lasting and far-reaching consequences.The initial pitch meeting feels a little like a first date: Each […]

Venture capitalists have been blinded in recent years by consumer technologies – but the real opportunity lies elsewhere.In the consumer internet and business-to-consumer (B2C) categories, there have been some dazzlingly large acquisitions – it’s hard not to be mesmerized by deals such as the $1.65 billion dollar acquisition of YouTube less than two years after […]